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- Process-relational Perspectives
- Indigenous and other Traditional Cosmovisions
- Coproduction of knowledge
- Decoloniality
- Feminisms
- Pluriverse
- Communal Sustainable Development Goals
Sonetti-González contributes to both the scientific and administrative dimensions of the XPaths project, supporting research, coordination, and overall project management.
Sonetti-González contributes to both the scientific and administrative dimensions of the XPaths project, supporting research, coordination, and overall project management. She is also a Ph.D. candidate within the XPaths project, which explores inclusive sustainability pathways in dryland contexts. XPaths fosters collaboration among local communities, academics, and policymakers to co-create strategies that address sustainability challenges while aligning with global goals. By identifying key barriers and leverage points, the project seeks to generate transformative actions for long-term resilience in some of the world’s most vulnerable ecosystems.
Her research focuses on multi-actor participatory processes where diverse and often conflicting knowledge systems intersect, centering the cosmovisions of Indigenous and Traditional Communities to co-produce inclusive and just sustainability transformations. Framed within the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), her work addresses inequalities and onto-epistemological injustices in the localization of these global objectives, co-developing action plans that foster sustainable futures. Sonetti-González research praxis is relational, embodied, and dialogical, where knowledge is not only co-created but lived.
Awards and achievements
- Minor Field Study grant provided by SIDA, granted in 2019
Supervisors
Key publications
Martins, M. A., Collste, D., Bezerra, F. G. S., Miranda, M. A. C. N., Gonçalves, A. R., Barros, J. D., Sonetti-González, T., ... & de Aguiar, A. P. D. (2024). Long-term sustainability of the water-agriculture-energy nexus in Brazil’s MATOPIBA region: A case study using system dynamics. Ambio, 1-15. DOI: 10.1007/s13280-024-02058-9
Mancilla García, M., Abunge, C., Bandeira, S. O., Cheupe, C., Combane, D. J., Daw, T., Sonetti-González & Shauri, H. (2024). Exploring a process‐relational approach to qualitative research methods for sustainability science. People and Nature. DOI: 10.1002/pan3.10667
Sonetti-González, T., Mancilla García, Tëngo, M.; de Castro, F.; Futemma, C. R.T.; and Tourne, D. C. M. (2023). Foregrounding Amazonian women through decolonial and process-relational perspective for transdisciplinary transformation. Ecosystem and People, 19:1, DOI: 10.1080/26395916.2023.2260503
Londres, M., Salk, C., Andersson, K. P., Tengö, M., Brondizio, E. S., Lopes, G. R., Siani, S. M. O.; Molina-Garzón, A.; Sonetti-González, T.; Montoya, R. D.; Futemma, C.; de Castro, F.; and Tourne, D. C. (2023). Place-based solutions for global social-ecological dilemmas: An analysis of locally grounded, diversified, and cross-scalar initiatives in the Amazon. Global Environmental Change, 82, 102718. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2023.102718
Brondizio, E.S., Andersson, K., de Castro, F., Futemma, C., Salk, C., Tengö, M., Londres, M., Tourne, D.C., González, T.S., Molina-Garzón, A. and Lopes, G.R., (2021). Making place-based sustainability initiatives visible in the Brazilian Amazon. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 49, pp.66-78. DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2021.03.007
